Duncan Jones Quotes
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I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.
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My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
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I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
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I'd love to do a Western.
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'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
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I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
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I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
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'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
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Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
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I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.
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I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
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I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.
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One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
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I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.